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originally posted by: windword
a reply to: Mr Mask
Sigh,
You can't pretend that the magical Jesus isn't part of the narrative that makes him Jesus Christ. You can't debunk the mythicist without addressing the myth.
Today we call ourselves by the Greek word Christian -- but have we ever questioned where the term originated? And what does it mean? The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge confirms that the name "originated outside of Christian and Jewish circles". The Mercer Dictionary of the Bible states that: "By the late first and early second centuries the name ‘Christian,’ which early believers avoided using of themselves, was beginning to be accepted".
If modern believers were truly sincere in their desire for a more intimate relationship with the Lord, they would immediately want to know and question why "early believers avoided" using the name Christian? When it is realized that even the very name Christian was in use prior to the time of Jesus, we truly begin to grasp the Pagan connection. The name Christian was a term employed to describe one who was an initiate, and understood the inner meaning of the Greek and Roman mystery religions. Thus, the early followers of Jesus refused to be called Christian, and call Jesus the Christ, because the word was used in reference to enlightened Pagans and their gods.
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originally posted by: eurocrates
The problem the world has with the Bible is the fact that all think that it has any historical value. The Taurat and the Bible, as well as the Qu'ran, are simply books that describe the human body, his behavior, his spiritual connection to the matrix, his inner self, his anatomy and it is a blueprint of our selves and the user manual to it.
originally posted by: windword
a reply to: Mr Mask
I don't think Jesus Christ is real. And he is character described in the Bible. You can't just pick and choose what belongs to the Jesus story and what doesn't. Even so, if you take away the magic, what do you have?
A zealot, with no father, preaching in wilderness who gets hung for his trouble. There were no shortage of people like that in those days. Does any one historical person match the character in the Bible called Jesus Christ? Nope.
Like I said, I want all reads to notice you reasoning for spreading "false pseudo-history that is NOT supported by academia".
originally posted by: windword
Look Mask,
It's like Superman and Clark Kent, see. You really can't have one without the other.
Let's say that you don't believe in Superman, but you think that Clark Kent was probably a real person.
So, we look for all the Clark Kents in the phone book. Only one of them turns out to be a reporter, but he doesn't live in and has never been to Gotham City. He wasn't adopted and didn't fall from space in a special pod. His parents are not Martha and Jonathan, but Sid and Betty. He has no Superman alter ego and does't know anyone named Jimmy Olsen or Lois Lane.
originally posted by: windword
Believing in Jesus Christ is a matter of faith, not fact.
I don;t care if Jesus was a rapist and a bank robber! I don;t care if he was a drunk who tricked people with card tricks! I care that YOU are trying to break and ignore proper historical data that has been peer reviewed and accepted widely by almost ALL historians who are far wiser, smarter and well educated on these subjects than you...while you fake and pretend to know a different truth (one that is a joke to modern academia as a whole) for one obvious reasons...
This is about history...not your personal demons over Christ.
originally posted by: windword
a reply to: Mr Mask
I'm still waiting for you to list of the false histories, that I've supposedly posted.
I am still waiting for ONE instance where similar has happened where a person was said to be a real live person and was actually invented hundreds of years later.
Serapis was devised during the 3rd century BC on the orders of Ptolemy I of Egypt[1] as a means to unify the Greeks and Egyptians in his realm. The god was depicted as Greek in appearance, but with Egyptian trappings, and combined iconography from a great many cults, signifying both abundance and resurrection. A serapeum (Greek serapeion) was any temple or religious precinct devoted to Serapis. The cultus of Serapis was spread as a matter of deliberate policy by the Ptolemaic kings, who also built an immense Serapeum in Alexandria.
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originally posted by: windword
Adam and Eve
Enoch
Noah
Mithra
Horus
Attis
Artemis
Persephone
Pygmalion
Robin Hood
Santa Clause
Frankenstein
Rumpelstiltskin
Hansel and Gretel
Cinderella
I could go on........
Huge problem with your list...MOST Historians (and educated people) do NOT think those people are real.
I still recall a thread here where i asked the question about people who were thought to be real people and actually were made up.
.........
SO, here is the chance for anyone to give an example.
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